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Andy is a Partner at DraperDragon and Draper Associates. He has over 20 years of operating, research

and development, investment banking and investing experience in the high-tech space. In his career he co-founded DraperDragon Fund in 2006 to focus on cross-border investing. He has seeded 10 unicorns and has led/managed healthcare and digital investments. Some notable investments he led includes 1047 Games*, VeChain*, Ledger*, Coinbase, Binance*, QTUM*, OASIS*, IOTEX*, Sheeld, Maker’s Place, Splashtop*, Yeepay, Jin Jing Electric Motors*, AltoBeam, Vicarious Artificial Intelligence*, Broadbus (MOT), ClinChoice, EDDA*, Atomwise, Verge Genomics, CloudMedx, and Pretty Litter. Prior to starting his own fund, Andy had various roles. He was a Partner and Member of the investment committee at ABB Technologies Ventures and Infineon Ventures. Before making Partner at ABB, he was an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston’s Technology Group in Palo Alto. During his time at Credit Suisse, Andy worked on the Magma IPO (SNPS) and Cyras (CIEN) acquisition. Prior to Credit Suisse, Andy was a senior engineer and marketing manager at Intel and was responsible for chip design and market enabling for Pentium and Itanium processors. Andy holds a BSEE in engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, an MSEE in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He was awarded the Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate by The University of Texas and holds one U.S. patent in silicon germanium thin film materials.

He currently resides in Portola Valley, CA with his wife Emily and their two sons: Maxwell and Thatcher. He is an avid skier and meditation practitioner and in his spare time, he teaches finance and fundraising classes to students and entrepreneurs.